Synopsis
The adventure of an old grouch thrown, for one night, into a parallel space-time, a sort of Styx toward a grotesque judgment. For years, he has been walking around the same neighborhood every night. On this particular night, his reality shifts when he spits out his dentures.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Mil Sabords
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Isabelle Ternat
- Screenwriters : Nicolas Diologent, Laurent Brixtel
- Director of Photography : Robin Milly
- Music Composer : Alexandre Mosca
- Editors : Laurent Pannier, Nicolas Diologent
- Sound Recordist : Laurent Pannier
- Voice : Franck Soumah, Yamin Dib
- Production Designer : Patrice Marchand
- Animation : Nicolas Diologent
- Special Effects : Gilles Comps
- Sound Mixer : Laurent Pannier
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Animated film
- Sub-genre : Clay animation, Fantasy
- Themes : The absurd, Imagination
- Production language : No dialogue
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2005
- Runtime : 12 min
- Production formats : Digital photography
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.33
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log (2013), by Vincent Patar & Stéphane Aubier
The year’s end celebrations are coming. Christmas : the tree, the dinner, the presents. Indian and Cowboy are expecting their presents eagerly. Overexcited by the organisation of the celebration, they fight and destroy the Yule log on which Horse was putting the last touch. Horse is livid and cancels the gifts from Santa Claus. How will they win back the favours of Horse and The Old Bearded Man? How will they retrieve their gifts ? For Indian and Cowboy begins a long, very long Christmas Eve.
🎄🎁 This new episode of cult animated series ‘A Town Called Panic’ was selected for festivals around the world, and notable gathered the Audience First Prize at the Bologna
Future Film Festival in Bologna.
It was nominated for the 2015 César for Best Animated Short Film.
